AC9AMU10C02 Year 9 The Arts

This Content Descriptor from Year 9 The Arts provides the specific knowledge and skills students should learn. Use it to plan lessons, create learning sequences, and design assessments that align with the Australian Curriculum v9.

compose music, manipulating and combining elements of music and compositional devices relevant to chosen styles and/or forms to communicate ideas, perspectives and/or meaning and notate, document and/or record the music

Elaborations

• 1 evaluating how different traditions, styles or contexts affect the way people respond to a piece of music; and using this information to compose a new piece of music designed to appeal to a specific audience or fulfill a specific purpose
• 2 experimenting with options for using instrumentation, dynamics and expressive techniques to develop the texture of a composition
• 3 working collaboratively to compose songs or instrumental music; for example, a song cycle, music theatre work or music for a film, animation or video game, or music that explores issues related to an historical or current event
• 4 applying an aural understanding of key and tonality when improvising or composing
• 5 experimenting with ways to combine and manipulate the elements of music and using style-specific compositional devices to develop and shape or extend compositions
• 6 analysing how elements of music are typically used in a music style and using findings as a guide when arranging or re-imagining music

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